"Great artists steal" in the sense of recognizing good existing ideas and building upon them. Now that Google has laid out its hand at IO17, detailing its plans for Android O and the search giant's various apps and services, what great ideas can Apple borrow for its own products? Here's a look. ]]>
http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/20/ios-11-android-o-what-apple-can-learn-from-googles-io17 Sat, 20 May 2017 20:22:00 -0400Google IO17: Android deployment rate continues to slip backwardhttp://appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/17/google-io17-android-deployment-rate-continues-to-slip-backward

Google has unveiled new versions of Android at its annual I/O developer convention with features often inspired by the previous year's iOS. The main difference: Apple can launch a new version of iOS and broadly distribute it before Google can deploy its copy of last year's iOS across even a third of its installed base. This problem is getting worse each year for Google and its Android partners. ]]>
http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/17/google-io17-android-deployment-rate-continues-to-slip-backward Wed, 17 May 2017 20:44:13 -0400Google reveals 'Android Go' operating system optimized for low-specification smartphoneshttp://appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/17/google-reveals-android-go-operating-system-optimized-for-low-specification-smartphones

Google is doubling down on increasing Android's market share in emerging markets with the creation of 'Android Go,' a version of Android O optimized for lower-specification entry-level Android devices and the bandwidth constraints of local infrastructure where those devices are sold. ]]>
http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/17/google-reveals-android-go-operating-system-optimized-for-low-specification-smartphones Wed, 17 May 2017 17:51:08 -0400Google shows notification dots, smart text selection, optimizations in 'Android O'http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/17/google-shows-notification-dots-smart-text-selection-optimizations-in-android-o

Major features of Google's next iteration of Android have been revealed at the I/O developer conference, with "Android O" gaining a Picture-in-Picture mode, notification dots on app icons, and the ability to autofill data within apps, shown alongside improvements to the security and speed of the mobile operating system. ]]>
http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/17/google-shows-notification-dots-smart-text-selection-optimizations-in-android-o Wed, 17 May 2017 15:28:10 -0400Google I/O 2016: Android's failure to innovate hands Apple free run at WWDChttp://appleinsider.com/articles/16/05/22/google-io-2016-androids-failure-to-innovate-hands-a-apple-free-run-at-wwdc

Rather than focusing on the incremental innovation needed to win back the attention of enterprise users and premium consumers, Google's vision for Android this year has again leapt in new directions which appear even less attainable. Android's scattered, imitative strategies du jour are resulting in a platform that looks a lot like Apple's--albeit the very unsuccessful Apple of the mid 90s. ]]>
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/05/22/google-io-2016-androids-failure-to-innovate-hands-a-apple-free-run-at-wwdc Sun, 22 May 2016 19:23:00 -0400Google I/O 2016: Android's Instant Apps seek to solve a key mobile problemhttp://appleinsider.com/articles/16/05/21/google-io-2016-androids-instant-apps-seek-to-solve-a-key-mobile-problem

Google's Android installed base has long suffered a major problem with fragmentation at the OS API level, due to the fact that licensees continue shipping low end phones paired with old versions of Android. Here's what the company is ostensibly doing to address that in a new project introduced at its I/O 2016 conference: Instant Apps. ]]>
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/05/21/google-io-2016-androids-instant-apps-seek-to-solve-a-key-mobile-problem Sat, 21 May 2016 21:05:00 -0400Google I/O 2016: Android deployment rate slips backward by 20 percenthttp://appleinsider.com/articles/16/05/21/google-io-2016-android-deployment-rate-slips-backward-by-20-percent

Over the last year, the pace of Google's Android deployment, already very slow, actually rolled backward by 20 percent over the previous year. Google is leading Android and Chrome toward stagnant beleaguerment. ]]>
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/05/21/google-io-2016-android-deployment-rate-slips-backward-by-20-percent Sat, 21 May 2016 19:39:00 -0400